Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22
NEW STEAMER.
City Of GAINESVILLE Arrival at the Wharf
Monday Morning.

| - ~'"lpo IN PiNoiuNiity anu JOllu II.
Pettus, Secretary ordered the building
OF a new steamboat for the Cumberland
river trade, The Paducah Daily Her
aid thus describes this elegant boat!
The little steamer City of GAINESVILLE,
designed to ply on the Cumberland
and Ohio rivers between Paducah and
Nashville, Tenn, is one of the hand
soonest crafts the reporter has looked
through in q long while. She is A ],
staunch and handsome from the top OF
her smoke stacks to her keel. Follow
ing are her dimensions: Length, 1877
feet; beam, 26 feet; depth of hold, 81
feet. She is supplied with two double
riveted steel boilers 16 feet long and
licensed to pressure Of 2l0 pounds.
Her engine room is furnished with the
machinery Of the old Belle of Fountain
which has been thoroughly repaired
and rebuilt by LINING & Jackson.
Her hull is as pretty n piece of ship
building rs any one would care to look
ut and was built by Capt Murray. OF the
Paducah ship-yard. The cabin contains
besides the offices, twenty-sx cosy state
rooms. 1t was built by Elisha Willis
and is as good a job as any body else's
job, ut home or abroad. The black
smithing and sheet iron work were all
done by ''Bill'' Love, who never turned
out piece of bad workmanship in his
life. The painting was by the day and
by our local painters, Alex Mcconnell
attenting to the gliding and lettering
The City Of GAINESVILLE is owned by
Joint stock company, OF which Ii. Ii.
Tharpe, of GAINESVILLE, is president, and
John H. Pettus, of the same city, is
secretary and treasurer. The stock is
mostly owned by the planters and far
mers along the Cumberland below Nash
vile. The boat will draw when loaded
three and one-half feet; light she can
skip along in thirteen and one-hali
inches OF water. She will be COM
manded by that veteran mariner, w.
ID. Colishaw, and Messrs. 2. L. Dews
and II. E. Morton will be her clerks.
At the time the Herald wrote its de-
scription the decorative work had not
been finished and the cabin and berths
had not been supplied with their Gle.
CANT furniture. We found everything
complete, the berths furnished with
comfortable beds and the bed clothing
and fixtures in each room embracing
everything required for the comfort
and convenience of passengers. In the
ladies' cabin we found splendid up
right Schuman Piano while the chan
deliers and ornaments were evidences
of the good taste in their selection and
arrangement. The Pilot House with
its starry ceiling and neat equipment
is model, but the most attractive OBJ
ject on the whole boat is the unique
clerks office in which we found the af-
fable and good looking clerk r. E. Nor
ton. No passenger would ever think
Of neglecting to "call at the office" if it
were only for the pleasure OF meeting
Morton.
Monday evening the City OF Clarks.
vile went out on its first trip, taking
175 hogsheads OF tobacco to Paducah,
consigned to New York.
On Monday morning 18th inst, a
party OF GAINESVILLE citizens boarded the
8 o'clock train and went down to
Palmyra where they found the new
steamer awaiting their arrival. The
party was composed OF Thos. Edwards,
Chas. Award, Ed Doris, Lee Brown,
w. S. Tyson, r. E. Gilbert E. G. Bates,
Thos. Pettus, Mrs. w. d. Collishaw,
Miss Mollie Flack, Ed Collishaw, Frank
Darden, Mack Harding, Will Johnson,
John Lowrey, Richard Martin, James
Morton, Joe Dean, Thos. Hughes, Rich
ard Evans, Richard Jones, Joe Wilson,
John Mays and the editor OF the
CHRONICLE The party was accom-
panied by the Magnolia Brass Band, a
GAINESVILLE organization, of which Prof.
Robert Taylor is leader, the members
being Joe FARRELL, Pat McAllister, Len
Tarpley, Boone Smith, B. NJ. Mitchell,
August Mitchell, Preston Schrodts,
George Weston, Ben Smith and Charley
Smith.
The thirteen miles to Palmyra were
soood travelled and a number of citizens
OF Palmyra and the surrounding coun-
try who had met the boat at the landing
loudly cheered the Band and the Clarks
vile party on their arrival. Among the
crowd we had the pleasure of meeting
B. w. Owen and T. w. Williams, mer-
chants of Palmyra; Isham Davis, Thos.
Lard, John Harmon, Burton Harmon,
John Williams, and w. S. Tyson, all OF
whom live in the vicenity of Palmyra
and are friends OF the new steamboat
enterprise.
With the band and large party Of
friends the steamer ran from Palmyra
to GAINESVILLE in an hour and three
quarters. A large crowd of citizens as
sembled on the wharf and with the
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